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I'd keep in mind that if each passive pickup model has a typical sound through a typical (standard) wiring, a passive pickup has no defined sound in itself. I can imagine a normally wired (IOW: in series) A2P being "glassy" through a wireless emitter without cable compensation, for instance...

I didn't know this one, thx for sharing! BTW, I had not found your initial statement incorrect in the post 11, since a resistor across the output jack terminals is electrically the same than a pot full up. ;-)

When your pot is full up, the middle lug and outer lug are directly connected to each other, with all the resistance of the pot between them and ground. That's why I've said that your connection to the output jack would make a slight difference only with the pot lowered.

it should slightly change how the volume pot behaves once lowered but with all controls full up, the effect should be the same. That said, if the guitar has a master tone pot, lowering it should have largely the same effect than putting a resistor in parallel with the output (knowing that a...

For the record, if I swap the necks of my two main Strats, both guitars sound dead. Each (ash) body cooperates with one of the two necks only. An interesting link about necks, FWIW: https://frudua.com/neck_influence_in_guitar_tone.htm +1. To come back on topic: a systematical comparison...

I think safe to say that theoretically, the difference should be really minor IF the flux measured from the strings by a magnetometer is identical with A2 PU down than with A3 PU up: in this case, the only remaining difference should be the slightly higher inductance due to more iron in A3...

About the Schenker bro's and to reply on topic: I remember to have seen Rudolf on stage with a P.A.F. loaded 1958 Flying V.

Well, in topics created by gimmieinfo, I've rambled more than once about "dynamics" as largely related to stray capacitance of coils (usually affected by potting)... but this thread is about magnets, so it doesn't harm to recall that A3 is the weakest popular alloy "all other things being equal"...

That's where height settings might be rewarding. Should make more difference compared to a A2 since A3 is weaker magnetically (reason why users hear A3 as explained in various posts above and in each case, I get what the contributor said: being weaker and albeit it boosts a bit the inductance...

The choice is yours. :-) A regular 47nF (.047µ) cap is too high to give a satisfying low cut / hi pass effect. Try 10nF (.01µ) or below. Rickenbacker mounted 4.7nF (0.0047µ) caps for that. Reverend Guitars used/uses 2.2nF (0.0022µ). And again, if you do that, wire the normal low pass / hi cut...

If it was for me and before to change the PU, I'd try shorter screw poles in it... or pulling off half or all of the screw poles... and/or "de-airing" the magnetic circuit... or wiring it in parallel: it might sound really close to the HFH in this case. Non limitative list. Do what you want and...

If memory serves me, the P90 sized TZ has a double thick ceramic magnet. Its two rows of screw poles are directly in contact with it. I wouldn't expect another magnet to make it work in neck position. Any AlNi(Co) bar should just make it less focused and darker by weakening its magnetic field...

"Short" answer: to me, it would depend on heigth settings under the strings in this case. A pickup with A2 set low enough to give similar Gauss readings from the strings should behave not too far from the same pickup set higher and with an A3 (minus the small differences due to a wee bit more...

It might be the first iteration of the DP103, so... They kept the name but the recipe has noticeably changed to become the "36th anniversary" model - not that it was close to a real P.A.F. to begin with, BTW, but I'll avoid to ramble about that here. 43 years ago, my first big concert was...

It's interesting to see at the bottom of a list neck pickups that I'd put at the top of mine... Tastes and colors aren't to be discussed. ;-) That said: are we talking about some real "P.A.F." here? I've zero problem to obtain good tight neck HB tones from the original recipe, personally...